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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Over Under, Over Under

Okay, I've got the next step underway on my process. If you can't recall my inspiration, you can read about it here.

I recently returned from a retreat where we learned to design Celtic knots. Ahhh; an epiphany! I could design a knot to use as the "wreath". So here is where I started;

Took a square of tracing paper, folded it horizontally, vertically, diagonally until I had what I thought were sufficient "wedge" sections to create my envisioned wreath;

cut a single wedge and drew several organic intersecting lines; refolded the paper square and inserted the single wedge within the folds and traced the lines. I had to remember to "mirror" the image in every other section. This is what resulted. Hmm...not exactly what I was looking for; try again.

Next attempt; better

Try another one; also not bad

I discovered that the more wedge sections there were, the more complex the resulting knot. Hmmm...I tried a few more. Now I just have to decide which ones to use.